Category: Knowledge Management

The first EV from Kia’s Platform Before Vehicle brand.

Source: Kia unveils PV5 electric van as a futuristic ‘people mover’ | The Verge

As generative AI reshapes software development, natural language commands are replacing traditional programming syntax, but experts question if English can ever match the precision of code.

Source: Can English Dethrone Python as Top Programming Language? – The New Stack

We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in close proximity to your ears. But a BBC report suggests that a

Source: Are your noise-canceling headphones messing with your head? | TechCrunch

Replit partners with Anthropic’s Claude and Google Cloud to enable non-programmers to build enterprise software, as Zillow and others deploy AI-generated applications at scale, signaling a shift in who can create valuable business software.

Source: Replit and Anthropic’s AI just helped Zillow build production software—without a single engineer | VentureBeat

Silicon Valleys software engineers are finding their previously ironclad careers crumbling under the growing cost of AI development.

Many, like former Indeed managing engineer Daelynn Moyer, are considering leaving the industry altogether. The 55 year old life-long tech worker told the Washington Post that she’s considering selling her house and retiring early to a farm, after 160 job applications went nowhere.

Source: Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can’t Easily Find Jobs Anymore

Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.

Source: AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

 

Starting February 2 in the EU, AI systems deemed “unacceptably risky” or harmful by the bloc’s regulators are being banned from use.

Source: AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch

The chip leader says the tech should now teach humans, but doesn’t believe it will replace them in the workforce.

Source: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says everyone should get an AI tutor | Fortune

Despite the Solomonic wisdom they represent — keeping families together in a crowded, high-rent city and providing rental income — ADUs have traditionally met with resistance.

Source: Boston’s Wu expedites ADU building as solution to housing crisis

Students with programming and building skills may have a leg up when applying for roles like AI architect or engineer. Those with a deeper understanding of subjects like psychology and sociology will have an even greater edge on applicants who have only mastered technical skills, says Sean McGowan, employer relations director at Carnegie Mellon.”We’re looking at how humans make decisions, because I think that is going to be the next iteration of AI,” he says. That’s where “students with additional skillsets upon the technological ones are going to have an advantage.”

Source: This college major will ‘automatically give you an edge’ in the job market, career expert says—especially in tech – NBC Los Angeles

Nothing disrupts daily life quite like a power outage. As rising temperatures fuel more extreme weather, the risk of prolonged blackouts is growing.

Source: Experts are urging homeowners to ditch their aging backup generators — here’s why homeowners are buying this next-gen option

It isn’t just artificial intelligence. Chinese biotech companies are now developing drugs faster and cheaper than their U.S. counterparts.

Source: The Drug Industry Is Having Its Own DeepSeek Moment – WSJ